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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. In a secure facility located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, two Styrofoam boxes containing endangered sea turtle eggs brought from beaches along the northern U.S. Gulf Coast are being monitored in a climate-controlled room until incubation is complete. Jane Provancha, lead biologist at the hatchery is heading-up the project at Kennedy. After hatching, the turtles will be set free on a Kennedy Space Center_Canaveral National Seashore beach. The Northern Gulf Rescue Operations relocation and release work effort is supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the National Park Service, NOAA, FedEx and conservationists to help minimize the risk to this year's sea turtle hatchlings from impacts of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo credit: NASA_Troy Cryder